THE WEATHER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5729, 29 March 1880, Page 5

THE WEATHER.

No. 13. II ° I I¥» I 1 ll|| S -if § S S S a=£ w 2"<i a 111 ® 2 ®S ps <" % "' gj 1- =-go - 3 £ *3 2 O I bills' 1 ' i J-: -—| ~ 3|| -vS uSip'g I ill ~fj I I"ss a 5 J | 8 s SS-SSo o° § " |i-2 w _ " 53 3 M-geo >, ss? go o ; t . ©grH «3 £3 c 5 | "o "*H "S — 2 £~* ci coJ2 ** 3 -2"3 * « © >«o •a"* - * 5 Op X ® 5 e? £*5 j? 2 oc j* o_o 2 g <* ® 5 S tr £5 £ la a laa 5At 8.30 a.m.. tAt 5.30 a.m. || Wind B.W. to W., thence to N.E. Direction of Wind N NE E SE S SW W NW Number of days ..0 3 436 G 3 3 Weather still hot ami dry—often cloudy and threatening, owing to the passage of heavy storing to the eastward, which only slightly affected this locality. Wind on two occasions violent.

Approximate mean temperature 1A degrees above the average, while that of March, 1579, closely coincided with it. Suu temperature a'so considerably higher, both in average and in extreme, than in last year, when the highest reading wasß9'7. Average of solar radiation, 133*-1 (in 1579, 113'), with extreme, 152'7, on the 4tli ; but terrestial lower, average 545 (in 1579 55 9), with minimum 47 3, on the ISth. Wind mostly light, and very variable in direction ; nearly an equal number of days from every poiut except N. Strong gale from S. W. on 11th and 12th, giving a mean velocity of nearly 30 miles per hour for the latter (lay, and again, with nearly equal force, from the sarno quarter, on the 2-ttli and 25th. Rainfall very little ; on seven consecutive days, from Stlx to 14th, inclusive, and on two single days, ones nearly 4-inch, twice more exceeding J-inch. On the other six days in small quantities. Barometlc pressure very variable, but mostly below average ; mean of all readings near. 1 / one-tenth below that of season. Lowest depression nearly coincident with the chief violence of the gale on the 12th, a velocity of 40 miles per hour being read at the time of observation.

Elwin B. Dickson, Government Observer.

P.S.—Persons preserving these tables for fature reference are requested to correct the following errors of press iu the figures given for approximate mean temperature :—ln No. 10, for 68*4 read 71*2; and in No. 12, for 62 - 5 read 65'1.